James Witherell

James Witherell (16 June 1759-9 January 1838) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VT 1) from 4 March 1807 to 1 May 1808, succeeding Gideon Olin and preceding Samuel Shaw.

Biography
James Witherell was born in Mansfield, Massachusetts in 1759, and he served in the American Revolutionary War, being seriously wounded at the Battle of White Plains in 1776. He moved to Fair Haven, Vermont in 1789 and served in the State House from 1798 to 1802, as a judge, as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1807 to 1808, as a territorial justice in Michigan from 1808 to 1828, and as Secretary of the Michigan Territory from 1828 to 1830; he was captured at the Fall of Detroit during the War of 1812. He died in 1838.